Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen and two government departments have been caught up in the embarrassing Wikipedia editing storm sweeping the globe.
A search using the Wikiscanner program has revealed Mr Tsang's profile was subjected to extensive favourable editing at the height of his re-election quest from Bank of East Asia offices, where he was running his campaign.
Wikiscanner traces the IP addresses of edits made to the popular online encyclopaedia. Several big companies, government departments and even the office of the Australian prime minister have been accused of removing critical passages.
Wikiscanner searches reveal eight favourable edits on Mr Tsang's page on March 17 originating from Bank of East Asia offices while his re-election campaign was in full swing. All the edits sought to cast a more favourable light on the chief executive.
The bank's chief executive, David Li Kwok-po, was Mr Tsang's campaign director-general.
The editing was so extensive that on March 25, the day he was returned to office, a Wikipedia editor wrote: 'This page has clearly violated the spirit of Wikipedia of self-promoting and individual!!!! [sic]'.
On Mr Tsang's profile, an editor traced to the Independent Commission Against Corruption had earlier added a lengthy diatribe criticising Mr Tsang's environmental record and attempts to tackle pollution.
